Interviews

I used to be called Eric. But you know me as Jamie Foxx

He was the hero in Django Unchained and is the villain in the new Spider-Man movie. Now the hard-partying tough guy is trying to rebuild his relationship with the parents who abandoned him at seven months old

Slumped on a futuristic sofa in the billion-dollar lobby of LA’s Sony Pictures
Studios, Jamie Foxx is eating a burrito out of a plastic bag and dreaming
about winning the lottery.

“If I were to win five hundred million dollars,” he declares, eyes wide at the
thought, “I’d never tell another joke. Never do another movie. Nothin’. It
would be, ‘Peace out’. That’s the thing with me, man. My wish was always for
the money, not the fame. The fame sucks, especially now, with social media
and all that. But people like me, we’re entertainers, not businessmen. We
get paid decently, but not enough to say, okay, my daughters, their
families, they’re all gonna be taken care of… y’know?”